The Business Journals Launches SelecTalent

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Business Journals recently launched SelecTalent, a candidate
evaluation tool to help companies identify and hire the very best
candidates.

“Our research shows that finding and keeping good employees is one of
small to mid-size business owners’ top concerns,” said Jenn McGuigan,
Chief Marketing Officer at The Business Journals. “SelecTalent
alleviates some of this stress for our customers, while saving them
valuable time and money in the hiring process.”

SelecTalent is different because it measures talent for a specific role.
Talent reflects a person’s natural strengths, which can’t be taught like
knowledge or skills. Talent will enable a candidate to become a
high-performing employee and, therefore, is the real key to
understanding a person’s potential.

Assessments are constructed based on a model of excellence, which means
high achievers are studied and assessments are created to measure
candidates against the very best. The detailed reports are based on more
than 40,000 interviews, job analysis surveys, focus group discussions
and field observations to determine what attributes matter most in
identifying excellent candidates for a given role.

SelecTalent allows users to send a 20-minute assessment to job
candidates to reveal how their natural talents might impact their
performance as an employee. The employer then receives an in-depth
report that ranks candidates on categories like motivation, management
and work style. The tool also allows employers to compare candidates on
a personalized dashboard to guide their decision-making and select the
best candidate for the job.

The team behind SelecTalent has more than 80 years of combined
experience in talent assessment, and The Business Journals has been
working with that team at SelectionLink for more than 20 years across
the company.

“At The Business Journals, our mission is simple: help customers grow
their business, advance their career and simplify their professional
life,” said Whitney Shaw, Chief Executive Officer of American City
Business Journals. “SelecTalent helps us do exactly that by giving our
customers confidence in their hires. And we know it works because we’ve
been using it at American City Business Journals for more than 20 years.”

SelecTalent currently has assessments for inside and outside sales,
administrative, customer service, manager and Commercial Real Estate
Broker roles. For more information about SelecTalent, including a sample
candidate report and pricing information, visit www.selectalent.com.

About American City Business Journals

For more than three decades, ACBJ has been the nation's largest
publisher of local business news and information, deploying more than
400 journalists across 43 major U.S. cities. ACBJ owns 40 business
publications online and in print across the country that offer
exclusive, in-depth business coverage. In addition, ACBJ owns and
operates SportsBusiness Journal, SportsBusiness Daily, SportsBusiness
Daily Global, Inside Lacrosse, NASCAR Illustrated and Hemmings Motor
News. ACBJ is headquartered in Charlotte, N.C. and is a division of
Advance Publications, Inc., the parent company to Condé Nast
Publications and more than 20 daily newspapers throughout the country.